Hello Litquakers,

With the #Litquake2022 lineup solidified, and nuggets from the schedule dropping across social media, we wanted to give another shout-out to all of our submitters. Each year we’re met with all sorts of ideas for events and participants who we might have overlooked otherwise. Your ideas are absolutely indelible to the Litquake experience and we can't thank you enough for bringing us your best and brightest. The Litquake community is what makes our festival so special. We wish we could fit every single submission in, but we’d need to carve out the entire month of October!

If you need literary satiating until then, Litquake is hosting our final Poetic Tuesday of the Summer today (more info below). You can also check out Litquake Weekly for the latest gems, delivered nearly every Tuesday straight to your inbox.

Have a good week, everybody!

Sharing works that delight, provoke, inspire and rouse, the monthly Poetic Tuesdays series runs from May to October, turning lunchtime into an oasis of creative expression. Lighting up the Gardens with a fabulously curated lineup of poets and musicians, Poetic Tuesdays offer a vivifying midday breather for neighborhood groups, students, office workers on break and even out-of-towners looking for respite from The City’s hustle and bustle.

Poetic Tuesdays w/ Litquake
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
FREE
Find out more

Litquake Weekly

Literary news, upcoming events, and whatever else we’re looking at...

“How can art be something made of words, the same words used for newspapers and parking tickets? Unlike the media most commonly associated with visual and sonic artistry, words are harnessed by most people during almost every waking moment of their lives...” The late James Longebach considers the medium of the English language • Poetry Magazine

“President Barack Obama released his annual summer reading list on Tuesday, and it was heavy with Bay Area writers.” Check out which four Bay Area authors made Obama’s Summer reading list • SF Gate

“...an outsized number of cookbooks hail from the Bay Area: the aforementioned Tartine Bread, as well as a handful of Chez Panisse books, Christopher Kostow’s A New Napa Cuisine, Rich Table, and SPQR.” Take a deep dive into the wide array of cookbooks featured on FX’s The Bear • SF Eater

“Beyond rhetorical play and textual trick, the palindrome pushes language to mean beyond its maker’s intention, as in this opening origin myth: On the twentieth of March, day & night hung in the balance, & we would chant our palindromes — Redder. Peep. Noon. Oh who was it I saw. Oh who.” A poet plays with the limits of language in this new collection • LARB

“Somehow being on a plane allows me more suspension of disbelief than I have when on terra firma. I can better enjoy magical realism and twisted plots.” One of the best places to read is up in the air, literally. Here are a few recommendations on just what book to crack open when you’re s oaring through the skies • San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook

“Spent time in prison camp. Attended avant-garde art school. Learned to make wire baskets, incorporating looped wire technique into her sculptures. Married a fellow student. Moved to San Francisco.” This new biography of famed Bay Area sculptor Ruth Asawa is a must-read • Washington Post

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About Litquake
Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature, perpetuate a sense of literary community, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city's music, film, and cultural festivals. 2022 Dates: Oct. 6-22. www.litquake.org

Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible. Institutional Giving: Alta Magazine, Amazon Literary Partnerships, California Arts Council, California College of the Arts, California Humanities, Center for the Art of Translation, City National Bank, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Grants for the Arts, HarperOne, Margaret and William R. Hearst III Foundation, Mary A Crocker Trust, Miner Anderson Family Foundation, Mystery Writers of America, Northern California Chapter, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Poetry Foundation, San Francisco Public Library, Swinerton Family Fund, University of San Francisco's MFA Program, Yerba Buena Community Benefit District, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Zellerbach Foundation. Individual Giving: Jared Bhatti, Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown, Margaret and Will Hearst, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Nion McEvoy, Craig Newmark, and Nicole Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson. Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, 7x7, KQED, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap.

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